Ninja Rabbit - ZBrush Sculpture Series — VOL 05

Six hours in ZBrush, and the only volume of the Sculpture Series that leaves the head behind. Volume five sculpts a ninja rabbit as a complete character — the body built from scratch, then the cloth of the costume over it, then the detail that ties the two together.

Scale is what makes this one different. A bust can be carried by a good face; a full figure cannot, and 360 minutes is the honest amount of time it takes to get proportion, pose and silhouette right before any surface work begins. If the earlier volumes taught you to sculpt a head, this is where the same habits get tested against a whole body and a set of clothes that has to hang off it convincingly.

What you get

• ✓360 minutes of ZBrush sculpting, by a distance the longest volume in the series
• ✓A complete character body sculpted from scratch rather than a head study
• ✓Cloth and costume worked over the finished form
• ✓Detail passes across body and clothing alike
• ✓Modelling technique throughout, pitched at beginner to intermediate
• ✓Six hours of silent capture — no voice-over, no captions

Six hours is a project rather than an evening, and it is best used as one: block out the figure with the recording, stop, come back for the cloth, come back again for detail. Stylised full-body characters are also among the most useful things to have in a junior portfolio, because they demonstrate proportion and costume together rather than one facial study repeated in different hairstyles. The sculpt follows a reference rather than being improvised, so work with your own reference visible.

Prerequisites

Basic ZBrush knowledge: navigating the software and using its primary functions. The completed character and its working files stay out of the download; the six hours of process are the product.